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DAVID ORTIZ   Years in Boston: 2003-2016 (.290/.386/.570, 483 home runs, 524 doubles, 1,530 RBIs) Best Year in Boston: 2006 (.287/.413/.636,...

David Ortiz was elected to the Hall of Fame on his first ballot last night, garnering 77.2% of the vote.  I will have a bigger post about th...

The American League adopted the designated hitter position in 1973 in an effort to increase offense and draw in fans.  Initially, it was pla...

It is official .  David Ortiz, the face of the franchise since 2003, has retired. It is often forgotten now that David Ortiz was not gua...

In one package, I added a bunch of new Ortiz cards, pulling me to within two cards of my goal of 500.  Several of these were parallels tha...

What a stupid title.  Anyway, I am a bit behind, so here is a catch-up post. 07/26:  Orioles 6 Red Sox 0 (61-43) Boston continued to have...

Truthfully I was kind of bored with the All Star game this year.  Not a whole lot really happened, particularly with the Red Sox players.  B...

The West Coast road trip continued this week in the Pacific Northwest.  It was a hard-fought series featuring several rallies. 07/08:  Mar...

The Tigers are pretty damn good, so it's not horrendously surprising that Boston struggled.  It's the way that they struggled.  Bost...

Boston continued to play well, this time against the Angels at Fenway.  The first game was rained out so the teams played a double header on...

The Red Sox had a four game set against the Cleveland Indians in Terry Francona's return to Fenway Park.  The Indians had been playing v...

05/20/13  White Sox 6 Red Sox 4 (27-18) Jon Lester took the loss for the first time this season as he was hammered for six runs over six in...

The Red Sox played the Twins in Minnesota this weekend.  They had a four game set in Fenway a couple of weeks ago and the Twins won three ou...

This may be the way I do these things from now on.  It is just easier to discuss the series as a whole rather than in individual games. Th...

Boston's offense took the weekend off apparently. In Saturday's game Boston managed seven hits but only one run.  John Lackey was ...

Boston scratched back into it and lead at one point late in the game but the bullpen imploded.  These things happen from time to time.  The ...

The Red Sox swept the Astros in four games.  John Lackey returned to the mound again after spending a couple of weeks on the disabled list a...

The Red Sox doubled up the Astros today with Felix Doubront winning his third game of the season.  He struck out eight and walked four and h...

The newest American League team came to Boston for the first time this offseason.  Clay Buchholz continued his hot start to the season, winn...

Well this was embarrassing.  There really should be no excuse to lose both ends of a doubleheader, but that is what happened. In the openi...